HELPED TEND THE WOUNDED IN THE FACE OF ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACK
Gunner William Clifford Ace Gunner with the 12th Field Canadian Regiment R.C.A. 43rd Battery, observation unit Gunner William Clifford Ace of the 12th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery acted as a signaller to a forward observation officer ( FOO ) with The...
Operation Plunder & Peter Fuse Targets
…..Shortly after midnight the night of March 10/11th the Regiment was en route to Cleve. We had just completed four weeks of very heavy fighting and certainly needed a breather. What was in store for us there, no one knew, but we expected that we would have a...
OP Block Buster ~ Hit a block and serious one
February 25th, 1945 saw operation “Blockbuster”. The objectives were to finish off the Seigfried Line and the 3rd Division’s job was to take Udem. The attack was successful and Udem was taken. Major A.T.P. Gilbert and Capt. E.J. Hooper of the 16th...
OP VERITABLE February 1945
OP ( Operation ) VERITABLE Â February ~ March 1945 February 2nd, 1945 – Orders were given for the Regiment to stay off the roads between 18:00 and 6:00 hours. The build-up for a major attack was beginning. February 6th, 1945Â – Operation...Recent Posts
They stood strong in the face of fear, together, fighting for freedom.
Remembering Easter weekend in Holland ~ 1945
In Memory
August 14th: The grimmest day of the war for the 12th Field
Canada’s Phantom Regiment Free On-Line Presentation
75th Anniversary of the Liberation on the Dutch-German border
Passing of Barry Bittle, son of a soldier-father he never met!
Celebrating the big 96th!
“May they be watching now from on high”
Reported Killed in Action, Fourteenth August